KUCHING, Oct 15: Padungan assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen has questioned why the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) government and its ministers cannot tolerate dissent despite having 80 representatives in the Sarawak Legislative Assembly (DUNS), following his suspension from the sitting for the remainder of the current session.
In a statement issued following his suspension today, Chong questioned whether the GPS government had become “so dictatorial that it is now beyond question”, arguing that the overwhelming majority of government representatives should not come at the expense of opposition voices.
“There were only two of us in the Opposition in DUN Sarawak (each having 20 minutes of debate time) and there are 80 of them singing praises of the GPS. Yet the GPS government and ministers still cannot tolerate a different voice,” he said.
